Best new movies and TV series on BINGE: August 2023

Each month, new films and TV shows are added to BINGE’s library. Eliza Janssen presents her picks for titles worth watching. For the full list of everything arriving on the platform, scroll down.

Top Picks: TV

Reservation Dogs: Season 3 (August 4)

Fortunately we get a third season of this fresh, funny Indigenous coming-of-age comedy! Unfortunately it’ll be the last one, farewelling our misbehaving rez dogs with a final flash of heartwarming moments and humour. Way back when Luke Buckmaster reviewed season one, he praised the FX series for having “pep and jive to spare. Its cheeky sense of humour imbues its slice-of-life naturalism with sass…it also includes such flourishes as breaks in realism that take you by surprise.”

Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty: Season 2 (August 7)

Blending drama, comedy, and sporting history, this well-reviewed HBO series is back to chronicle LA’s beloved Lakers right up to the 1984 finals—and the killer rematch between team star Magic Johnson and his rival Larry Bird. James Nokise had a ball watching season one last year: “There are paralleled family dynamics, multi-million dollar egos, and the fate of a city’s fans at stake. Throw in a healthy amount of Ted Lasso-ish male archetype deconstruction, and the show strikes a captivating chord.”

Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake: Season 1 (August 31)

Come on, grab your friends: let’s go to very distant, gender-swapped lands. Adventure Time may be over, but this adorable spin-off, starring the female versions of Finn and Jake (now a cat!), promises to deliver the same squishy landscapes, quirky characters, and probably a few addictively catchy tunes as well. Animation fans, be they young or just kids at heart, will be glad to have Pendleton Ward’s noodley-armed characters back on their screens.

Top Picks: Movies

Corsage (August 1)

Directed by Marie Kreutzer, this unconventional biopic of Empress Elisabeth of Austria stars Vicky Krieps as a monarch struggling with the irrepressible creeping of time. Is she merely vain, worrying about her waist-size and age? Or is her situation, however flouncy and aristocratic, darkly relatable to most of us? Lillian Crawford loved the lavish period piece in her review from last year: “It is far more engaging and enjoyable to watch an historical biopic which makes no pretence to authenticity, and Kreutzer is keen to signal her self-awareness through pop-aesthetic winks to camera.”

M3GAN (August 12)

Meet your new bestie: she can do TikTok dances, sing Sia’s “Titanium” as a beautiful bedtime lullaby, and sprint at your enemies on all fours before shoving them in front of a speeding truck! This instantly memed horror film from Blumhouse more than lived up to its hype, even if its PG-rating means the scares are never too unbearably intense or gory. Allison Williams is an all-timer terrible parent when she lets her newly-orphaned niece bond with the artificially intelligent doll, played by multiple talented child actors.

Aftersun (August 24)

Charlotte Wells’ accomplished debut feature is so acute and specific in its characterisation of a bittersweet father-daughter bond, and yet it’ll make just about any parent get all misty. It’s no wonder leading man Paul Mescal picked up an Oscars nod for his role as a depressed dad, holidaying with his daughter as she slowly realises just how existentially distant they are. The karaoke and dancefloor scenes perfectly hone in on the energy here: of how memories, nostalgia, longing can be as painful as they are precious.

All titles arriving on BINGE in August

August 1

Grand Designs Australia: Seasons 2-10
FBOY Island USA: Season 2
FBOY ISLAND Island NZ: Season 1
Fifi And The Flowertots: Seasons 1-2
Boys: Season 1
Thomas Cromwell: A Very Modern Tudor: Season 1
The Secret Life Of 4, 5 And 6 Year Olds: Season 3
Grantchester: Season 7
The Lost King
The Old Way
Doomsday
Corsage
There’s Something Wrong With The Children

August 2

TMZ No BS: Harry And Meghan
Chain Reaction: Season 1
Walking Tudor England: Season 1
Eating With My Ex: Season 1
Simply Raymond Blanc: Season 1
House Hunters international: Season 175
Sealed With A Kiss: Wedding March 6

August 3

George of the Jungle: Season 1
Murder Squared: Season 1
Pet Medics: Season 1
The Bad Skin Clinic: Season 1
Colin And Justin’s Hotel Hell: Season 1
Beautiful Baking With Juliet Sear: Season 1
I Am Sam

August 4

Reservation Dogs: Season 3 Premiere
Chicago Fire: Season 7
Great British Railway Journeys: Season 11
Gerry Anderson: A Life Unchartered
Look Who’s Talking Now
Look Who’s Talking Too

August 5

Rock Case Studies – Lynyrd Skynrd
Meet Me In The Bathroom
Intimacy
The Remains Of The Day
Austenland

August 6

WWE Summerslam 2023
Cuban Fury
The Kings Of Mykonos

August 7

Winning Time: The Rise Of The Lakers Dynasty: Season 2 Premiere
Olivia: Season 2
Full Metal Junkies: Season 1
The Cruise: Season 4

August 8

Postman Pat Delivery Service: Season 1
NCIS: Los Angeles: Season 13
Jack L Warner: The Last Mogul
If You Care For Me
Doctor Zhivago
Purple Rain

August 9

The Trouble With Kanye
TMZ No BS: Jennifer Lopez
Eating Our Way To Extinction
Farmhouse Fixer: Season 2
Nip/Tuck: Seasons 1-6

August 10

Rap Sh!t: Season 2 Premiere
1000-lb Best Friends: Season 1
Raa Raa The Noisy Lion: Season 2
Deadliest Catch: The Viking Returns: Season 1
Dante’s Peak

August 11

Slammy Awards 2020

August 12

Rock Case Studies – Elton John
M3gan
Infinite

August 13

Men In Kilts: A Roadtrip With Sam And Graham: Season 2 Premiere

August 14

Abandoned Americana: Season 1

August 15

Gino’s Italian Express: Season 7
NCIS: New Orleans: Season 7
Lost In The Woods
Ghost Adventures: Season 19
Mysteries of the Deep: Season 1
Naked and Afraid: Season 7
Gold Rush: Dave Turin’s Lost Mine: Season 4
Awake Surgery: Season 1
The Offering
A Little Princess
Letters From Iwo Jima

August 16

Gogglebox Australia: Season 18 Premiere
Icons Unearthed: Marvel: Season 1 Premiere
TMZ Investigates: Lisa Marie Presley: Unending Tragedy
First Blood: Season 1
Ross Kemp: Extreme World: Season 4
Inside The Tower Of London: Season 2
The Man Who Saved Ben Hur
How To Eat Fried Worms
The Price Of Tides

August 17

Charlotte In Sunderland: Season 1 Premiere
Drew & A: Seasons 1-2
999: What’s Your Emergency?: Season 6
Secrets In The Ice: Season 2
The Fugitive
Blazing Saddles

August 18

The Catch: Season 1 Premiere
Botch Club with Gallows and Anderson
Ice Cold Catch: Season 1
Little Giants
Me Myself And I
Two Is A Family

August 19

Up Close And Personal – Genesis

August 21

Inside The Factory: Season 7

August 22

The Secret Life of Lighthouse: Season 1
Mega Metro: Season 1
Would I Lie To You?: Season 11
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
The Perfect Dinner

August 23

Forged In Fire: Season 9 Premiere
TMZ No BS: Hollywood’s Biggest Lies
Tough Enough: Seasons 4 – 6
Hot Money
Send Nudes: Body SOS: Season 1
Castle Howard: Season 1
Guardians of Time
A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
Crossword Mysteries: Riddle Me Dead